Burglars bound and gagged a Nuku‘alofa businessman, and violently assaulted him, while robbing his home and business on Friday night, May 5.
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Wednesday 9 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Wednesday 9 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau'u left Tonga on Saturday May 5 to attend special events in London, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Wednesday 9 May 2012
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Northampton, United Kingdom
Tongan rugby player Soane Tonga'uiha, a star with the Northampton Saints Rugby Club, in the East Midlands, England, will this year lead the charity fund-raising activities for his club, after committing to a testimonial year.
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Tuesday 8 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
After years of living with candle-light, two families in the Sopu area of Nuku‘alofa, were overjoyed to receive the first electric lights in their homes, after a Tongan grandmother Siutiti Halatoa (51) who trained in solar engineering in India last year, installed the first solar panels under a community led project, this morning May 8.
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Monday 7 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Mosese Manuofetoa was fined $150 after pleading guilty to one charge of assault, at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court on Friday, May 4.
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Monday 7 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Justice Robert Shuster has his final day on the bench today, May 7 after being a judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga during the past four years, and have presided over 800 cases.
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Saturday 5 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
King Tupou VI proudly opened the Vaiola Hospital's building, built under a $40 million pa'anga final phase redevelopment, with assistance from Japan, that has given the people of Tonga a hospital facility of an international standard.
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Friday 4 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Rev. Dr Tevita Havea was elected as the chairman of the National Retirement Benefits Scheme and Dr Sione Leimoni Taufu'i as its Chief Executive Officer, at the first meeting of the board of directors on May 2 at the office of the National Reserve Bank.
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Thursday 3 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Justice Charles Cato, a New Zealander, was sworn in this morning, May 3, as Tonga's second Supreme Court Judge, replacing Justice Robert Shuster who has been a judge of the Tongan Supreme Court during the past four years.
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Thursday 3 May 2012
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Tokyo, Japan
Japan, as a development partner on an equal footing, has been working together with PICs in their nation building. "Kizuna," or the bond of friendship between Japan and PICs is deeply rooted in the fact that we share the same Pacific Ocean and the common spirits of islanders nurtured by this great Ocean.
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Thursday 3 May 2012
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Washington DC, USA
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Welcomes Progress towards Using US$1.1 Billion of Gold Profits as part of a strategy to Boost Concessional Lending to Low-Income Countries and Calls on More Members to Join Effort.
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Thursday 3 May 2012
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Paris, France
World Press Freedom Day (today, May 3) is our opportunity to raise the flag in the fight to advance media freedom. We call on States, professional media and non-governmental organisations everywhere to join forces with the United Nations to promote online and offline freedom of expression in accordance with internationally accepted principles. This is a pillar of individual rights, a foundation for healthy societies and a force for social transformation.
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Wednesday 2 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A six-years imprisonment sentence was imposed on a 49-year-old father on numerous charges of incest and indecent assault, that he had repeatedly committed on his young daughter from 2005-09.
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Wednesday 2 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 2011-2012 session of the Tonga Legislative Assembly was "softly" closed by Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala this morning, May 2.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Legislative Assembly held a special sitting today, to discuss two reports on a National Spatial Planning and Management Bill 2011 and a National Retirement Benefits Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2011.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Four Cabinet Ministers took up their new Ministerial portfolios today, May 1.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Five men remain in custody after an armed robbery at a Chinese shop in Ma'ufanga on Saturday night, April 28, led to arrests the following day.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A program to enhance the leadership quality of secondary school principals was launched in Nuku'alofa last Thursday, April 26.
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Monday 30 April 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A new constitution for the establishment of a new Tonga Rugby Union Inc. was unanimously adopted in a special meeting of the Tonga Rugby Football Union TRFU on Saturday 28 April.
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Monday 30 April 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first sitting of Tonga's Court of Appeal ended at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa and delivered judgments, that reduced the imprisonment sentence of a man who was convicted of raping and indecently assaulting a 19-year-old girl, who was his close relative.
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